The Maid's Remonstrance

"Excerpt from "Gertrude Of Wyoming"     Apart there was a deep untrodden grot,     Where oft the reading hours sweet Gertrude wore;     Tradit"

"The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current"

"When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four the Seasons flew. First, in green a"

"1 Star that bringest home the bee, 2 And sett'st the weary labourer free! 3 If any star shed peace, 'tis thou, 4 That send'st it from above, 5 Appeari"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"